Loom temple



Patented June 30, 1936 PATENT OFFICE 2,046,280 LooM TEMPLE Harold W. Waterhouse, Hopedale,ll/Iass.,assignr I to Draper Corporation, Hopedale, Mass, a corporation of Maine Application February21, 1936, Serial No. 65,100

' 3Claims. (01. 139-298) The present invention pertains to loom temples, and more particularly relates to the guiding and supporting means therefor.

Temples of the type mentioned usually includ a fixed housing having a guideway wherein a reciprocating bar is mounted, the bar carrying the temple head which engagesand stretches the cloth. The construction is such'that the tension of the cloth pulls the bar inwardly of the loom against the inner wall of the guideway. The resulting pressure tends to cause undue wearing of the temple bar and the inner wall of the guideway. Such wearing of the temple parts has been of suflicient consequence that many devices have been made for patching up or repairing worn temples by supporting the bar in proper position in a worn guideway. Prior devices of the type mentioned do not prevent the temples from becoming worn, but only serve to restore worn temples to service.

I propose to provide, in a temple of the type mentioned, bar supporting means carried by the fixed housing, which means shall prevent the aforementioned undue wearing of the temple bar and guideway. To this end, I provide a temple housing wherein the inner wall of the guideway is recessed to receive a block of oil-impregnated bearing material which is in contact with the reciprocating temple bar, the block materially reducing the wearing of the bar and guideway by keeping the parts properly lubricated and also by relieving the wall of the guideway of at least part of the pressure caused by the pull of the cloth. Preferably, the housing is provided with an ad- J'usting screw which acts on the bearing block in a direction to hold the latter in contact with the bar.

The preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated on the accompanying drawing, of

which:

Fig. 1 is a plan view showing the temple in proper relation to the cloth being woven;

Fig. 2 is a view of the temple of Fig. 1 with the temple housing and bar broken away and appearing in section; and

Fig. 3 is a view in cross-section taken approximately on line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

The temple shown on the drawing includes a housing I which may be comprised of an outer part 2 and an inner part 3 and which is adapted to be fixed to a loom (not shown) in such manner that it extends generally parallel to the selvage S of the cloth C being woven on the loom. The housing has a guideway 4 extending longitudinally therethrough. The guideway is defined by top and inner walls 5 and B respectively, formed on the inner part-3, and bottom and outer walls formed on the outer part 2.

A temple bar 1 is slidablymounted in the guideway 4 for reciprocation forwardly and rearwardly 5 of the loom, which is in a direction parallel to the cloth selvage. The temple bar carries at its rearward end a laterally extending head 8 which is provided with any suitable-usual means such as a roller (not shown) for laterally stretching 10 the "cloth as the latter is.woven The temple head and bar are moved forwardly each time a pick-of filling is beaten into the cloth, and are returned rearwardly by a spring 9 which is housed within a recess formed in the walls of the guideway 4. 15 It will be noted that, as is usual in temples of this type, the pull of the cloth tends to pull the temple bar inwardly of the loom against the inner vertical wall 6 of the guideway 4. More specifically, the tendency is to pull the bar hard against the 20 rearward end of the wall. i V

The aforementioned pull of the bar against the inner wall of the guideway has been the direct cause of rapid wearing of the bar and guideway.

Ordinary methods of lubrication are not a sat- 25 isfactory solution to the problem because of the danger of spattering oil or grease onto the cloth. The present invention provides a construction wherein excessive wearing of the temple bar and guideway is eliminated without the application 30 of dangerous quantities of lubricant to the temple bar.

' The particular embodiment shown on the drawing includes a block In of oil-impregnated bearing material positioned in a recess ll formed in 35 thelinnervertical wall 6 of the guideway. The recess is comprised of a groove, herein shown as rectangular in cross-section, formed in the wall 6 and opening toward or communicating with the guideway. The block I0 is formed of a suitable 40 oil-impregnated material of the class of materials employed in so-called oilless bearings, the particular block shown being comprised of oil-impregnated bronze commercially known as Oilite.

The block is loosely positioned in the recess 45 7 whereby it may be removed for replacement purposes.

The block I0 is normally positioned in contact with the temple bar 1, whereby the block keeps the bar lubricated and thus materially reduces 50 the wearing of the barand guideway, thisresult being accomplished without providing any quantity of lubricant which could spatter onto the cloth. I have also provided an adjusting screw l2 which may used to merely hold the block in' 55 the extent against the block l0.

. 'IhGLCOnSlQmCtiOll of the presentinvention'is.

particularly advalntageous, not "only in therespectsaib'ove"ine'ntic'in'ed,- but also in that the "positioning of the bearing block within'the confines,

of the housing 1 permits full reciprocation ofthe' ,temple whereas prior devices POSitiOHGdjEOI'TiX-f tending rearwardly beyond the housing-reduce to whichthefteinplecan-gb retina-4 cated.' h V V i v n fully disclosed the preferredembodim t of'my invention, Ijclgi i r 1. A loom-temple comprising a housing having 7 r a guideway extending longitudinally" "there'- 7 sthrough ;a longitudinally:reciprocating "temple v 112 .11:slidgafoly mounted in saidguideway, a temple head at the rearward'end ofisaid bar, saidtemple V Ybeing adapted to be 'positioned'ona loom-in such I -position that 'thecloth being woven pulls "saidbar -laterally against onewall of said'guidew'ay,fthere beinga recess insaid wall, and a .block of oilimpregnated bearing material removably positioned insaid; recess in contact with'said bar.

. :2; 'A loom temple comprising a housing having a guideway extending longitudinally .therethrough, a longitudinally reciprocating temple bar slidably mounted in saidguideway, a temple head at therearward end of said bar, said temple being adapted to be positionedon' a loom-in such position that the cloth being woven pulls said bar laterallyagainst' the inner wall of said guidej way, there being a recess in said wall,ra block or oil-impregnated bearing metal positioned in 7 said ret'essm contact withsaidbanand an adjusting 1 V screw in said housing, 'said sciew acting on said block in a direction to hold the latter incontact -A loom temple comprising a housing having;

a guideway extending longitudinally there? longitudinally reciprocating temple ounted in said guideway, a temple to 7 V hsaanneraiward end oi said bar, said temple,

position that the cloth being woven pulls said bar' laterally against the rearward endof theinnerf verticalside wall of saida'g'uideway, saidwall-adiacent its rearward end having a trece ss'which sag'ainst saidbar to 'thereby 'prevent wearing-o1 'said wall by the bar. 7 Yr beingiad'aipted toibezpositioned on a'loom in such 7,

' communicates withsaid guideway, a blockofzoil- V impregnated bronze loosely positioried in said'rer cess in" contactxwit-h bar, and'an adjusting E2 7 serew'carried by said housing, said 'screvwactlng.

l on said =block"inadirection to force the latter HAROLD W WATERHOUSE. 

